Artist Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment…

— Edward Weston

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal…

— Bill Brandt

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

— Robert Henri

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and,…

— Paul Delaroche

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

— Robert Henri

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

— Charles Dudley Warner

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

— Denis Diderot